Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

Action is character.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The only way to start is to start.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act, don't react!

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James